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...that the Mahdi Army is conducting a campaign of organized violence against Iraq's Sunnis. TIME has uncovered evidence of a Mahdi Army program of ethnic cleansing designed to drive Sunnis out of mixed neighborhoods. As a member of a Shi'ite Islamist party himself, al-Maliki dares not incur the wrath of his own community. The last Iraqi leader who tried to face down al-Sadr, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, paid a heavy political price - in two general elections following his authorization of U.S. forces to smash the Mahdi Army in the summer of 2004, Allawi has been...
Laugh tracking all the way to the bank, U.S. TV studios are counting on foreign sales to offset the losses they incur selling prime-time TV shows to the networks. While an hour of episodic TV typically costs $2.5 million to produce, studios usually recoup only 65% of the cost from networks, adding up to $45 million to $55 million in deficits each season. Syndication and foreign rights turn losers into winners. "If we didn't have international sales, no studio could afford to produce those shows," says 20th Century Fox's Newman. "They're critical...
...doctorate, not just a bachelor's. It's such an up-and-coming field in academe that there is an actual shortage of qualified educators. We don't have enough people to teach leisure. I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to incur the wrath of the leisure scientists. They'll beat me up with lawn chairs...
While boats from Pac-10 powerhouses like Washington, Stanford, and Cal must fly out to New Jersey and drive their boats across the country, East coast crews like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton can charter buses and incur far fewer costs to attend the IRA regatta...
...decades there have been individual homeowners dedicated to incorporating green principles into their custom-designed homes. This is not a mass movement. It's an advance guard, homeowners here and there around the country with both the awareness and the means to build green, a practice that can incur extra costs up front but can pay them back over the longer term in energy savings and other advantages, in addition to its benefits to the wider world...